Ostmedaille and Medaille für den Italiensch-Deutschen Feldzug in Afrika ribbon bar

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One of the ribbon bars from my WWII collection.





It is a double ribbon bar with the ribbons of the Eastern Medal (Ostmedaille) and the Italo-German campaign in Africa Medal.





I have photographed it with those same two individual ribbons from both medals, also from my collection.

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From Russia to Africa....

I always thought that the men awarded these two medals represented, in a way, bad luck in the war, because they went from freezing in the winter of 1941 on the Eastern Front to scorching hot in the sands of North Africa a year later.



I don't know if it is true but the seller advertised it as the ribbon bar of a German artilleryman, so I added to the post the two photographs of an artilleryman on both fronts...


Rusia

Afrika

Regards
Santi